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How do you plan to do the syncing without some sort of cloud infrastructure?
by maxhille 1y ago
How do you plan to do the syncing without some sort of cloud infrastructure?
- piperswe 1y agoSomething like Syncthing, perhaps?
- dsp_person 1y agoAnyone know of any mobile apps that have done this and bundled their own fork of syncthing under the hood for syncing?
- FallCheeta7373 1y agoPractically not really needed for a person going out of their way to setup syncthing, you can just sync the underlying folder, I do this with logseq, their syncing subscription is paid, I just sync the underlying logseq graph and markdown syntax. It's seamless and rarely disturbs me, works well in background, although android seemingly doesn't respect my background preferences, and clears it out of my ram when I inevitably hit the clear button, but that's soluble by simply rebooting once in a while.
- DataDaoDe 1y agoright now its in webrtc
- spintin 1y ago[dead]
- CGamesPlay 1y agoThere are a lot of valid answers to this! One is to use your platform's provided one, like OneDrive or iCloud. Another is to integrate with some other sync platform. Dropbox is a popular target for this. Peer-to-peer is another, although that obviously also come with limitations. Finally, bring-your-own-sync is a popular choice amongst open-source apps, where you provide a self-hostable sync server.
- jen20 1y agoNote that this thread is full of people claiming that using SQLite with iCloud sync is evidence of some conspiracy theory or other!
- rschiavone 1y agoThere's a git plugin.
- WD-42 1y agoCheck out Aardvark (renamed to reflection) it's a collaborative note-taking app from the GNOME folks. I think the idea isn't to completely remove cloud infrastructure, but to at least make it optional and/or provide alternatives. For example, this note app works via P2P. blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/30/aardvark-summer-2025-update/
- MajesticHobo2 1y agoYou can use FTP and SVN.
- cortesoft 1y agoBoth of those require a server
- j45 1y agoSyncthing
- jmb99 1y agoThe benefit of local-first means you’re not incentivized to sell your cloud offering, so you can just give options. Sync with iCloud, Google drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Mega, SMB, SFTP, FTP, whatever you feel like adding support for. And since local-first usually means having some kind of sane file format, you can let “advanced” users manage their own files and synchronization like people have been doing for the last 50 years.
- pvh 1y agoIdeally, you would use existing commodity infrastructure but we have found none of it is really super fit for our purposes. Failing that, we have been developing an approach to low-maintenance reusable infrastructure. For now, I would advise running your own but positioning yourself to take advantage of commodity systems as they emerge.
- Hard_Space 1y agoFor Joplin I use WebDav from the 10gb of free file storage that comes with Fastmail. So I have easy sync with multiple platforms and form factors, and even substantial notes make little dent in the allowance.